Henriette Schramm-Graham
Henriette Schramm-Graham , née Henriette Graham (born April 11, 1803 in Leipzig , † April 26, 1876 in Kötzschenbroda ) was a German opera singer (soprano) and actress.
Life
Graham received training from Kapellmeister Schneider in Leipzig at a very early age and married the actor Nikolaus Schramm in 1819.
As an actress as well as a singer she was engaged successively in Königsberg, Memel, Elbing, Danzig, Magdeburg, Rostock and Nuremberg as well as at the court theater of Sondershausen . In 1837 and 1838 she worked at the court theater in Mannheim , then the opera house in Breslau , and from 1840 to 1842 she appeared at the court theater in Dessau .
Versatile as an actress and singer, Schramm-Graham sang the role of Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte , Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , Rezia im Oberon von Weber or Agathe in Weber's Freischütz .
After she rejected the offer of the Berlin court theater to succeed Amalie Wolff-Malcolmi around 1844 , she stepped down from the stage to be with her family. In their marriage, Schramm-Graham had three daughters, all three of whom she trained, also went to the stage: Auguste Schramm (after 1819–1854; singer and actress), Amalie Schramm (1826–1907; soprano and actress) and Anna Schramm (1835–1916; soprano and actress). Amalie, who had given up her career in 1873, lived with her in Kötzschenbroda until her mother's death in 1876 and then went to her sister Anna in Berlin. This inherited the villa in what was then Albertstrasse 2 in Kötzschenbroda.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 915 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens , Hansjörg Rost: Large song dictionary . Saur, 2003. ISBN 978-3598115981 .
- Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . Directmedia Publ., Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-89853-133-3 .
Web links
- Henriette Schramm-Graham in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ^ Address book Kötzschenbroda with Fürstenhain 1889, p. 66 (Albertstrasse 2, cadastral no. 125RR).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schramm-Graham, Henriette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graham, Henriette (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1876 |
| Place of death | Kötzschenbroda |